Word: bao
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...started slowly back down the road. Then, 300 yards away, the soldiers appeared again, this time out on the road itself, signaling that I stop. I pulled off the road. They came, guns at the ready. Two Vietnamese. My hands went up, and I whispered the word for journalist: "Bao-chi." Then "Hoa-binh," the Vietnamese words for peace. Then louder: "Bao-chi, bao-chi, bao-chi." One of the soldiers looked at me confusedly. With his rifle, he motioned me out of the car. I got out, hands raised, and spoke again: "Hoa-binh, hoa-binh, hoa-binh...
Within moments, my captors and I were trotting into the jungle. We came to a small command post, and once again I blurted out: "Bao-chi, hoa-binh." They were Viets, all 15 of them, and they understood. Now they began talking, asking me the question I feared most: "My? My? My?" (American? American? American?) I feigned ignorance, and we moved off again, deeper into the trees. The soldiers guided me into a bunker. So this is how it ends, I thought. In some rotten little hole, where no one will find...